Example sentences of "the first [noun pl] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Moomintroll and the Snork Maiden feel the first flutterings of love and , for once , we are offered a complete family ( the Victorian habit of removing one , or both , parents was a convention that survived into Ransome 's time ) . |
| 2 | In my view , these figurines are evidence of the first consequences of the coming Neolithic trauma — the beginning of weaning and the loss of the primal mothers . |
| 3 | Severe recent flooding in the Andes was one of the first consequences of El Niñshow the impact of global warming , with a 0.041° C mean increase between 1963 and 1990 . |
| 4 | Contrary to what was to happen in the modern period ( and still continues ) , the first objects of trade were not logs but what are sometimes rather dismissively referred to as ‘ minor forest products ’ . |
| 5 | The first buses of the day were abroad , brightly lit and empty . |
| 6 | The first storeys of the house of cards came tumbling down and Victoria burst into tears . |
| 7 | It was pitch-dark and the house was very quiet when the first effects of the treatment woke him . |
| 8 | They are only now feeling the first effects of the slump in new commercial work . |
| 9 | The first effects of lateral heat flow are seen as a ‘ hiccup ’ in basin development denoted by the Symon Unconformity within the Westphalian C , approximately 18 my after the onset of thermal subsidence . |
| 10 | The first effects of the scheme were the most dramatic . |
| 11 | In the meantime the first effects of the diversion have been reported in Hungary . |
| 12 | What Soviet aid , the first consignments of which began to reach Spain in October 1936 , was emphatically not intended to do was advance the cause of social revolution in Republican Spain . |
| 13 | John Talbot was born in the same year as the Catholic Relief Act was passed and as a result was one of the first sons of Catholic gentlemen able to benefit from a solid Catholic education in Britain . |
| 14 | An array of pooches and their owners from across the district gathered at Clacton 's Vista Road recreation ground to receive the first copies of the pack . |
| 15 | Its release had , however , been held up for some time on instructions from C. M. Woolf , a shrewd film salesman who had played a key role in financing the first projects of both Balcon and Wilcox . |
| 16 | It is hard to see how a minute understanding of the development of the Greek language from Homer to Demosthenes , or of the keys used by Brahms in the second subjects of the first movements of his sonatas can be fitted into the usual pattern of socially useful knowledge . |
| 17 | At last , in the far distance , we glimpsed the first lights of Salamanca . |
| 18 | His mind recalled the familiar ambience of his trade ; men moving like black shadows behind the glare of the arc-lights the police cars tidily parked ; the flap of the screens , desultory voices conferring as they watched for the first lights of his approaching car . |
| 19 | By 1986 there were just over 2,800 establishments in the 23 British zones , 70 per cent of which were located in the first designations of Swansea , Tyneside , Corby , the Isle of Dogs , Wakefield , Dudley , Speke , Clydebank , Salford — Trafford and Hartlepool . |
| 20 | The Boer War brought the first murmurs of coalitionism , a sense of national crisis brought the first attempt to form a coalition , and the advent of the First World War made it a practical possibility . |
| 21 | He was grinning from ear to ear and the first stabs of doubt needled at Ruth 's heart . |
| 22 | By Spain , Jackie was beginning to feel the first twinges of the ulcer which was to hamper him for some time and keep him out of racing properly — and out of Belgium altogether — until July . |
| 23 | Taking our places under the lights and feeling the first twinges of nervousness , we watched the cameras moving into position . |
| 24 | Annie now embarked on her remarkable public career , first as an associate of the atheist Charles Bradlaugh in the National Secular Society , then as a Fabian socialist and strike leader ( of the London matchgirls ) , and as one of the first members of the London School Board . |
| 25 | He was also one of the first members of the British Deaf Association when that was formed in 1890 . |
| 26 | The first members of the teams run up to the suitcases and put everything on , run round the back of the rest of the team and then take everything off and put it back in the suitcase before running back and touching the next member of the team who repeats the process . |
| 27 | On their visits to St Matthew 's he always left the church , mysteriously present one moment and the next gone , when the first members of the congregation began to trickle in . |
| 28 | Good as its word , Advanced Micro Devices Inc yesterday announced that it has begun shipments of the first members of its Am486 microprocessor family with 33MHz , 40MHz and clock-doubled 50MHz versions , all of them full clones of the Intel Corp 80486 with maths co-processor on board . |
| 29 | This ones by , er actually you are the first members of the public to know about it . |
| 30 | And at any moment now the first members of staff would be arriving . |